Section 2
- Understand the potent allergen urushiol causing the rash.
- Who’s allergic and how that changes.
- How to clean it off your skin.
Section 3
- Understanding skin for rash mastery.
- How immune overreaction causes rash.
- Transcend the itch. Be a PI ninja.
- When to see a doctor.
Section 4
- How to practice safe scratch.
- Treat the rash by its stages and succeed.
- The Cs of itch relief: cool, calm, constrict.
Section 5
- Rash remedies: holistic and conventional products for calming the rash, cooling itch, constricting blisters.
- Analgesics for pain relief.
Section 6
- Identifying the American Axis of Itching—the four main species—in all places and seasons.
- Innocent imitators.
- Poison Sumac: the Swamp Monster.
Section 7
- Prevent urushiol skin contact with clothes, creams and better habits.
- Weird ways we spread urushiol around.
- How to clean everything.
Section 8
- Eradicate the plant by yanking, spraying and mulching it.
- Timeline for waging battle.
- Combat gear and nuclear-level protection.
Section 9
- Urushiol mummies.
- Poison ivy tree lacquer.
- Poison oak art.
- Pop culture poison ivy.
- Deadly home remedies.
- Debunking the myths.